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I was not merely saddened but left shell shocked by the loss of two friends, both decent men of high accomplishment, one a creative genius and the other a superlative sportsman, DB Nihalsingha and Jayampati Opatissa Yatawara.

Panamanian investigators on Friday raided a property used by Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the center of a massive leak of offshore financial data, removing bags full of shredded documents as evidence, a local prosecutor said.

As a frequent flyer, I have traveled with the Southwest Airlines a few times. In my operational excellence classes, I have often used it as an example of standardization. But I have stopped flying the airline for quite some time. Its “You Are Now Free To Move About The Country” has become a wildly outdated slogan, and, as noted by other observers, perhaps the addition of the phrase “If Not A Minority” would help.

Hardly a week goes by without some form of news, branding Google, the search giant, as a law breaker, especially in non-English speaking Europe. The catalog of accusations that range from killing privacy to monopolizing search, seem to be giving Google bashers a free passage to moral high ground with a brief stop-over at short-lived stardom. In the long run, however, this intensely-fashionable pursuit may horribly backfire, while leaving billions of regular users in a very damaging lurch.